Description
Specifications
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General
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Year of initial development
1993
Year of latest version
2012
Operating System
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Minimum computer requirements
Matlab; IDL
Stand-alone
Yes
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Other specifications
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Supported export formats
GeoTiff; XY-class ASCII and others
Typical application
Seafloor characterisation of sidescan (and now multibeam) imagery. See GoogleScholar and ResearcherID for references.
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Employed signal characteristics
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Full wave-form
N
Derived depths
N
Backscatter
Y
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Usage
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Extracted parameters
entropy/homogeneity, corresponding to texture roughness and amount of order/disorder; acoustic classes; habitats {if ground truthing is adequate}; some geo acoustic parameters; geological features{if ground truthing is adequate}
Penetration
0
Timing of analysis
Offline
Pre-processing data and quality control
Y
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Coupling to hardware
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Proprietairy data processing
Y
Supported sensor systems
Sidescan and multibeam backscatter data
Open to other data formats
Y
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Charting
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Contour creation
N
Profile creation
N
Reporting chart creation
Y
S-57 support
N
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Applied principle
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Signal modeling
N
Segmentation
Y
Feature extraction
Y
Feature detection methods
Adapted multi-orientation grey level occurence matrices
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Ground truthing
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Independent samples required
N
Ground truthing possible
Y
Max. amount of derived classes
65536
